The Parents' & Teachers' Guide to Helping Young Children Learn: Creative Ideas from 35 Respected Experts - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1881425053 ISBN 13: 9781881425052

Publisher: Preschool Pubns, 1997

Synopsis

This book provides information on how young children learn, and offers activities to encourage emerging literacy, promote creativity and imagination, and enhance knowledge and development in music, art, science, movement, and computers. Each section concludes with a list of resources.

About this title

From the Publisher

Winner of an Early Childhood News Directors' Choice Award earlier this year, the book, The Parents' & Teachers' Guide to Helping Young Children Learn: Creative Ideas from 35 Respected Experts, has just added another accolade: A Parent's Guide Award.

The winners of the Early Childhood News Directors' Choice Awards were selected by a panel of six judges whose combined experience in teaching, management, and research represented over 100 years of working with children.

A Parent's Guide Award honors outstanding achievement in parenting material. A new publication, Parent's Guide, will include reviews of the 1998 awards.

These two awards show that The Parents' & Teachers' Guide to Helping Young Children Learn is valued by both early childhood educators and parents. The book is being used as a resource for curriculum ideas in early childhood programs, staff training, parent training, parenting libraries, and as a college text.

In this 350 page book, distinguished experts present the very best in information and ideas to promote learning, language, literacy, and creativity--as well as math, science, and the arts. Imaginative experiences are suggested in every chapter, and calendars and charts offer activities in reading, gardening, music, and nursery rhymes for each day of the month. Resource lists at the end of each section are useful in finding books for children and adults on the topic discussed.

The 35 respected experts who contributed to this volume include: Dr. Thomas Armstrong, author of Awakening Your Child's Natural Genius, Dr. Ellin Greene, author of Read Me A Story: Books and Techniques for Reading Aloud and Storytelling, and Dr. Barbara Baskin, Emerita Director of Child and Family Studies, State University of New York at Stony Brook, along with 32 other distinguished authorities.

In her foreword, Dr. Nancy Balaban, Director, Infant and Parent Development and Early Intervention Program, Graduate School of Education, Bank Street College, New York City, states, "On every page there are treasures: information, ideas, resources that will enhance your daily lives with children.... Nothing has been left out of this 'encyclopedia ' of ideas."

We think you will agree with the educators and parents who have called The Parents' & Teachers' Guide to Helping Young Children Learn "extraordinary," "an excellent resource" with articles that are "readable, concise, and full of ideas."

Preschool Publications has been publishing materials on early childhood topics for parents and teachers since 1986. Editor, Betty Farber, has been an early childhood specialist for over 30 years.

From the Author

(Comments from two of the 35 contributors.) You can't replay the early years of a child's life. Any parent or teacher who wants to do the right thing with young children will want this book. Reading it is like taking a very enjoyable and enlightening child development course. (Bette Simons)

A must-have book for parents and those who work with young children. Talks about how language develops, how kids learn to read and write, learning styles, science and nature...just about everything about how kids learn. Even includes activities to do with children. And, if you want to learn more about a topic, or read a book with your kids, The Parents' and Teachers' Guide reviews books on each topic. A fabulous resource! (Neala Schwartzberg, Ph.D.)

Edition details

• Publisher: Preschool Pubns
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1881425053
• ISBN 13: 9781881425052
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 355
• Editor: Farber Betty M. Ed.